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Since ancient times, reeds have been used as a low-tech building material in several construction purposes. Reed is a natural building materials that possess many useful benefits in contemporary building practices. Reeds grow around lakes, swamps and other water canals and have no environmental impact if dismantled after construction as they are biodegradable. Reeds are also easy to cut and handle

Assessment of robustness of structural systems very often involves assessment of the structural response after local damage. In this paper an attempt is made to describe the state of art in this field with focus on methods which can be used in engineering practice. Advanced non-linear and dynamic computer tools are available today which can deal with most of the above mentioned phenomena but they

Land use change has been observed to cause profound impacts on sustainability, particularly when the change is not well planned and co-coordinated. In Kenya the government is promoting diversification of crops to embrace high value crops and drought resistant crop varieties in efforts to reduce poverty in rural areas. Sugar beet is one of the crops considered as an option in this context. Adoption

We propose a simple optimal a posteriori probability (APP) symbol decoding algorithm for linear block codes, which requires one forward recursion in a trellis.

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Understanding of intermolecular interactions are important in order to gain insight into a large number of physical processes. This thesis concerns itself with theoretical modelling of such interactions. In particular there is a focus one of interaction contributions called polarization. This interaction is sometimes ignored, but is a real and often important effect. For a model to be able to desc

There is a growing trend in linguistics to use large corpora as a tool in the study of language. Through the investigation of the different contexts a word occurs in, it is possible to gain insight in the meanings associated with the word. Concordances are commonly used as a tool in lexicography, but while the study of concordances is fruitful it is also tedious, so statistical methods are gaining

We introduce the problem of reoptimizing the network after a link failure has been repaired as an effective way for reducing capacity usage and improving network performance. Numerical results show gains higher than 42%.

The aim of this paper is directly linked to the context within which it has been drafted, as ecological debt (including climate debt) has been identified as a key Ejolt concept, one that is in need of better elucidation if EJOs are to operationalize its possibilities in their ongoing activities. Readers of this paper (and especially EJO activists) should in this way not only find themselves introd

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